But when the summer months fade into the chillier autumn and then winter months, the park slows its high energy pace and bunkers down for the immense snowpack that comes every year. And where most couples would wait it out, Sean and Megan chose to greet the snow on Leap Day for their perfect intimate elopement at a treehouse illuminated by a campfire.

In all honesty, this session was almost canceled a handful of times simply because of weather and logistics, and man am I grateful that it didn’t, because Palouse Falls may be the dreamiest place in Washington to elope.

What do you get when you fly out two Oklahoman’s out to the Pacific Northwest at the end of autumn when winter is right on the cusp and you set them up on a 7-mile round-trip trail no one in your group has ever hiked before to get them married at a mountain lake next to nobody has heard about?

It was set against the setting sun, as dust, juniper and sage brush became the glorious chorus that made this elopement session scream with beauty. There was so much love, and their smiles were never ending, that I doubt I ever lifted my finger from the shutter key.

In the middle of the Owyhee Desert in Southern Idaho, lays a place with crazy rock formations, endless sagebrush, and a view that is utterly incredible. And it was the perfect please for these two cuties…